Category: Waste Management

01 Apr 2020
The Corona Weekend… March 28-29, 2020 – Bengaluru, India. I had been working from home for the last two-plus weeks because of the nation-wide lockdown in India. All employees were recommended to work from home until further notice. With the work from home routine, I saved three hours of travel time every day. But, the...
08 Aug 2019
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A series of pictures from the Road… 2. Bangalore — Koramangala, Jakkasandra, Waste Management…
09 Feb 2018
Citizens' Rally for Right2Breathe
Residents of Kudlu, Haralur, Haralukunte, Somasundarapalya, & Parangipalya are getting ready for yet another peaceful protest against the Karnataka Compost Development Corporation’s Kudlu Compost Plant. Last year we saw the #Blood2Breathe protest during which almost a hundred residents donated blood for the cause. Under the leadership of KHHSP Residents’ Welfare Association, this time it is Citizens’...
03 Jul 2017
Donating blood for a cause! This is the second blood donation camp in Somasundarapalya, HSR Layout, Bengaluru, dedicated for a cause. While the first one was for the Right for Road, this one is for the Right To Breathe.  A silent fight against the Karnataka Compost Development Corporation (KCDC) and BBMP for the right to breathe fresh air. The...
17 Mar 2017
KCDC Gathering
We live in HSR Layout, ward 174, Bengaluru, near a compost plant owned by the Karnataka Compost Development Corporation. Near does not mean that close…approximately 1.5 kilometres away from the plant. When we moved to this area in 2009, this compost plant was not operational, to be precise – plant was in an abandoned state....
08 Nov 2015
———— Mr. S was waiting for someone near a Lake… looking at the already polluted lake. An old dull teal scooter came towards him… slowly… and took a right turn towards the lake.   This is not the person he was waiting for.  But, many things on the scooter caught his attention… more attention than the...
03 Nov 2015
This is kind of Nostalgia note on our journey to waste segregation. Mythri Maiden is a small apartment with 28 housing units. Almost an year ago, we started segregating waste with a simple idea: “being a small community does not mean that we should shrug away from our duties towards our environment.” Being Part of...
05 May 2015
Styrofoam (thermocol) takes almost the same time or more than that of plastic materials to decompose. Hence it is better to reuse styrofoam materials to the maximum possible extend. Here is an example of the reuse of styrofoam materials in a rooftop garden in Chennai. Subscribe to the channel if you like to watch similar...